The End Of Science
by John Horgan · first published 2015
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For a long time I've liked Horgan's book "The End Of Science", although you'll never meet a working scientist who thinks the book has any value. It's definitely true that people are writing more papers than they've ever had and there's nothing to stop that trend.…
on “Why There Will Never be Another Da Vinci” ↗John Horgan loves making these wild assertions even though he is not a trained scientist or mathematician. He once even published a book called the End of Science. In that book, Horgan said that scientists were no longer going to come up with revolutionary scientific theories like relativity and the theory of evolution. Safe to say, this guy has a reputation of…
on “Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All” ↗As science historian John Horgan noted in The End of Science the parallel in physics is with academic humanities departments becoming mired in "irony" The End of (one type of) Physics, and the Rise of the Machines https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10680…
on “Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years” ↗Errata/Addendum to above: It is John Horgan (and not Morgan) and the book is "The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age".
on “I hereby pardon all junior engineers” ↗